Candle decorations and repair
Decorate candles or cover nicks or scratches with these
easy, fun techniques.
Buy a package of crayons and carefully melt them (using a
lighter, matches, or another candle) and either fill in the
nicks and scratches on the original candle with the matching
color, or cover the nicks and scratches by decorating the
candle with different colors.You may also use the melting
crayon technique to decorate bottles - a fun way to make gifts
with kids.
Contributed by Lori
Also try rubbing out small scratches or imperfections on
candles by placing pantyhose over your hands and rubbing gently.
Contributed by Angie S.
You can also purchase brass candle ornaments with pins in
them and decorate the candle to hide imperfections. Or, if
the scratch is near the bottom, cover it with a wide ribbon.
Contributed by Kathy
Craft stores carry many different kinds of little decorations
made from wax that you can put over the nicks, like little
flowers, hummingbirds, etc. Or if you have some shape of something
you could use for a mold you could melt your own wax down
and make these decorations. I have used candy molds for this
type of thing, spray it with Pam cooking spray and then pour
in the melted wax (I use left over candle pieces) then wait
for them to cool and then pop them out and apply them to the
areas that are nicked to create a beautiful one of a kind
candle.
I have also used glass gems and sea shells to decorate a
plain candle, turning it into something very beautiful. If
you want to get really creative you can use decorative wire
wrapped around the candle to create the look of a candle holder
and from there attach anything you can find in metal. or you
can make your own Metal flowers out of the aluminum cans.
Cut out petals and bend and form them into flowers and then
paint them. When the candle is burned the wire frame and decorations
attached to it are left still intact to put another candle
in the center of it. I make mine in a spiral shape that starts
from the bottom and wraps up to the top, the bottom I bend
about 2 inches or so into a L shape and pierce it into the
candle then just wrap the wire freely around the shape of
the candle and attach decorative ornaments on the wire.
Contributed by Pam
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